TSI collects the expanding body of interventional stroke treatment experience and knowledge residing with academic and community-based neurologists, emergency medicine physicians, stroke nurses, neuroradiologists and others active in acute stroke treatment. This collegial exchange of practical, hands-on, clinical approaches focuses specifically upon overcoming barriers to rapid stroke treatment. The editorial objective of the Journal is to: "support clinicians and acute care institutions to orchestrate and refine the emergent treatment of stroke patients to improve ultimate outcome".

The Stroke Interventionalist is published and owned by the Stroke Group, Inc. The Journal is jointly sponsored by the University of Texas Medical School, Office of CME which offers TSI readers one hour of AMA Category One credit for each publication. The Journal targets neurologists, emergency medicine physicians and their colleagues interested in acute treatment of stroke.

The Stroke Interventionalist is published and owned by the Stroke Group, Inc. The Journal is jointly sponsored by the University of Texas Medical School, Office of CME which offers TSI readers one hour of AMA Category One credit for each publication. The Journal targets neurologists, emergency medicine physicians and their colleagues interested in acute treatment of stroke.

• Independently Produced
• Authoritative
• Complimentary
• Clinically Focused
• Edited by Leading Stroke Interventionalists

UT-Houston Medical School Office of Continuing Medical Education has approved this publication as a CME activity and enduring publication and provides 1 credit hour of category one CME to readers for each issue published.

The Journal is 16 pages in length includes up to 8 figures per issue, available as slides (complimentary), which illustrate critical content.

Each issue includes a selection of articles authored by noted authorities and others experienced in various aspects of interventional stroke care and treatment.

"Case studies in acute stroke treatment" -- presents actual cases in a grand rounds format
"Establishing Stroke Centers" -- showcases an individual hospital and it's process of establishing a stroke program
"Original feature article presentations" from a leading authority on some aspect of acute stroke management
"Acute Stroke Intervention Resources" which regularly provides updates on resources available from NINDS, AHA, NSA, AAN and others. Staff at those organizations provide us with their columns so that they contribute directly to the publication. This is the only venue where this information is collected and made available in one source.

A consensus question and survey entitled "The Stroke Opinion Leader Consensus Question" is featured in each issue with survey results appearing in the next issue, Previous questions have included:

Does your hospital have a stroke team/acute stroke protocol in place?
Average time to treatment?
Barriers to rapid treatment? Preference of Topics for future issues?

The inside back page contains reader evaluation of publication, consensus question and response form, the CME quiz to obtain credit, and the form to order the "TSI Colleague Package" which contains slides from the illustrations in the current issue and two additional TSI's to share with colleagues.

Neurologists and emergency medicine physicians constitute the target audience. They have proven to be the most important medical disciplines leading the transformation of acute stroke treatment. Additional copies of TSI are available for distribution to their colleagues via the "TSI Colleague Package."

By offering readers the TSI Colleague Package, containing slides and additional TSI copies we hope to multiply the impact that the TSI has on reader's colleagues, their disciplines and the institutions they serve, further supporting the development and refinement of new interventional stroke systems.

We hope that the availability of The Stroke Interventionalist on the Internet will expand its impact and assist it to become even more of an essential resource for the exchange of vital new information and experiences, ultimately improving the delivery of care and treatment to stroke patients.